Between Surveillance and Sousveillance

Or, Why Campus Police Feel Vulnerable Precisely Because They Gain Power

Bibliographic Data

ID2365601
AuthorsM Inoue (0000-0002-5971-5233, University of Kentucky, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume49
Issue2
Pages229-256
Publication date2020-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0891241619880323
OpenAlexW2982207720
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited26

Utilizing historical and ethnographic data, this article explicates a thesis that involves a paradox-campus police feel vulnerable as the "surveyed" precisely because they gain power as the "surveyor." Toward this end, first, I identify a dramatic change in the status and function of campus police from watchmen to law enforcement professionals in the 1960s-1970s as a key historical context in which this paradox emerged. Then, I ethnographically explore forms this paradox has taken at the level of consciousness-behavior of campus officers. Attention is paid to how digital technologies of the twenty-first century transform campus policing, a process that redefines the relationship between the state and civil society and normalizes "watching" as a basic mechanism of new governance. I consider political and theoretical implications of new governance and the role writing can play in ethnographic studies of police to elucidate it

Context (archaeology · Corporate governance · Criminology · Ethnography · Law enforcement · Management · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public relations · Sociology · State (computer science · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · History · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Rhetoric and Communication Studies

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